Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
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Willow Springs, CA April 5-6, 2003 The Datsun 240 Z of Mark Belrose. Photo: Cheryl A. Jones Become a Member...
Savannah, GA April 3-6, 2003 Start of the Monoposto race. (Left to Right) The Brabham BT29s of Bob Goeldner, Asa Candler and Joe Blacker lead the field into Turn 1. Photo: Robert Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
Back in the 1960s, if you raced or rallied an Austin Mini Cooper, you would have met and probably been...
I raced at Le Man, 13 times, and each time it was a good one. It was especially good when...
In the summer of 1980, I was at Goodwood for a test session. Before I reached the pits, I bumped into Les Thacker, the Competition Manager of BP, who was picking up the tab for the Toleman Formula 2 team, who was dominating the season. Mike Lawrence “Anything interesting?” I...
The over 2 liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations...
The 10th Goodwood Festival of Speed will take place July 11-13 and will feature a vast selection of the best...
For a “round peg,” John Cooper Fitch fits remarkably “squarely” in the pigeonhole marked “True American Hero.” In his 85 years so far on this planet, he has risked life and limb for his country as a WWII fighter pilot as well as for his own pleasure in racing cars...
One of the races I remember well from my career was winning the 24-Hours at Spa in 1968. I drove...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
The year was 1970 and these were the Targa Florio/Nürburgring 908/3’s. These cars were very squat and square, except for their rounded nose. The driver’s feet were in front of the wheels, with nothing but a fiberglass skin protecting them. The powerplant was rated at only 350 hp, but with...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 1 Count Eliot Zborowski killed in accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France (1903). 1...
Can Chris Pook save open-wheel road racing in America? Whatever the answer turns out to be, I reckon every reader...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Formula Vee in 1963. In order to honor this venerable driver’s series, Road America and DRE/WREP have organized the Formula Vee 40th Birthday Party Celebration to be held at Elkhart Lake,Wisconsin’s Road America on June 19-22. Founded in 1963,...
On Jan. 29, the automotive and Hollywood worlds collided when over 500 guests arrived at the Petersen Automotive Museum in...
The NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California will be keeping up with the Joneses this Spring… a very special one:...
1910 LANCIA TIPO DA CORSA CHASSIS 307 A little earlier this year (VRJ, Sept. 2002), we had the exceptionally rare pleasure of not only testing but competing in the iconic Lancia D50 Grand Prix car. Clearly, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime affairs. Such is the keen enthusiasm of some Lancia...
Revenge in Italy – doesn’t that conjure up images of Machiavelli and the Duchess of Malfi? A little known early...
“Gentleman” racers Jack Sears and Peter Riley were BMC works drivers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jack drove...
I swear to you, I don’t know how it could have happened. I had been so diligent, for so long – I took all the necessary precautions. I stopped hanging around with the wrong crowd. I stopped frequenting the usual haunts. And yet in the end, I was undone by...
Did your heart rev up when you heard Dan Gurney was trying to resurrect his old Eagle F1 team? Dan...
There have been classic races at Le Mans, and races for classics, but the 2002 Le Mans Classic was about as close as you could come to seeing the “old days” recreated at the Le Sarthe circuit. The Peter Auto organization took on a tremendous task of trimming the entry...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost...
Rush hour, Monterey-style – the start of Sunday’s Trans-Am finale. When an actor or a musician becomes a mega-star –...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, there is exciting news brewing on Long Island, as a strong movement is afoot to resurrect Bridgehampton Raceway. If you’re not familiar with the tale, it is one that has become all too familiar to race fans from Goodwood, England to Monterey, California....
